9-9-09

Drug Lord, General Stanley McChrystal, of the Pat Tillman Murder & Murder Cover-up Fame, Deliberately Set Up Afghanistan Gasoline Trucks Massacre - Rosh Hashanah Sacrifice?

General Stanley McChrystal's legacy is that he is responsible for the death and cover-up when great American Pat Tillman was shot in the back and murdered as part of a Karl Rove political stunt. General McChrystal is again using his cover-up skills in this deliberate massacre. He is also painting himself in the picture as a coward. The entire episode strikes me as a deliberate set up to kill civilians - civilians working for Russia. The incident was planned to anger Russia and may be part of a larger Rosh Hashanah sacrifice 2009 in which Russia is the ram to be sacrificed.

How difficult would it be to send two filled to the brim gasoline tanker trucks on a trip after dark through drug territory and have the drivers abandon them in just the perfect location to hit them with bombs as civilians were having a big time getting the gasoline? Child's play. You figure. Who were the truck drivers and what happened to them? Oh they escaped in a heroic fire fight. Sure. We believe you just as we believe the Pat Tillman friendly fire hustle. The drivers abandoned the trucks where they were supposed to abandon them just as ordered and returned to the base to inform General McChrystal. General McChrystal put in place the second part of the plan. Murder civilians. Then everyone returned home to party. End of story.

Here is the coward part. General McChrystal, head of International Forces in Afghanistan (Isaf), is responsible for who shoots whom in Afghanistan, not the Germans. General McChrystal is playing cover up artist again and coward to blame the Germans who are under his command for a decision which was his and logic dictates he made. General McChrystal got away with the Pat Tillman murder and cover-up, he enjoys the publicity, and he is doing it again because he enjoys murder and the drug business. General McChrystal will keep on doing mess like this until, figuratively speaking, someone bigger than him puts their cowboy boots on, places General McChrystal's head on a piece of concrete, and stomps on it for a few hours.

When the USA arrived in Afghanistan in 2003 the Taliban was in the process of getting rid of poppy production - production was maybe 25% of what it is now. Big George Bush couldn't stand for that - no poppies, no heroine. Why do you think Big George's grandchildren call him "Poppy" ? The USA went to Vietnam to get Americans hooked on drugs. Afghanistan is important to keeping the war on drugs, which is really a means of putting the USA in a police state, going. If General McChrystal does not keep the flow of poppies going he is in real trouble. General McChrystal also has to send junkie soldiers back to the states to keep the war on drugs going.

We will see General McChrystal shed a bunch of crocodile tears, but things are going to get much worse in Afghanistan than better and he will be in the middle of it. Worried about beer joints? What about heroine dens? If General McChrystal is such an outraged Boy Scout, why doesn't he close down the bars and whore houses in Afghanistan? Oh No, can't do that. We would not have anyone to fight this war.

Why is Obama's expansion of the war in Afghanistan treason and so important to the communi$ bad guys, the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, who put Obama in the Presidency. The war in Afghanistan, and its expansion, is key to the overthrow of the United States. For the US to make war in Afghanistan is Obama and the bad guys' way to make war on the USA. General McChrystal is making war on the USA as well, treason. Killing civilians, whether with drones or operatives, expands the war. War is the excuse which allows the communi$t$ to take our US Constitutional rights from us. The US Constitution allows the suspension of Habeas Corpus in one and only one situation. When the violence takes place on the US mainland and time is of the essence. Example. President Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus during the Civil War. There was not enough time to allow capture Southern soldiers hire a lawyer. But the communi$t$ are now suspending Habeas Corpus for terrorists captured in the Middle East to set precedents to define Americans as terrorists so all Americans have their Habeas Corpus rights taken from them. bin Laden has been dead for years, since 2001 to be exact, 10-26-01 Is bin Laden dead?. Obama keeps the bin Laden lie alive and expands the war in Afghanistan to give him more time to have laws passed and Executive Orders issued to categorize Americans as terrorists without Habeas Corpus rights. General McChrystal killing of civilians and Obama's drone attacks targeting civilians is key to the communi$t$ bad guys, Rothschilds and Rockefellers, war against the United States.

I Ching - Did General McChrystal play a role in setting up the gasoline tanker incident to deliberately kill civilians?

15 Humility - inwardly firm, outwardly flexible chgs to 32 Constancy - long persistence

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9-10-09 NATO investigating civilian deaths; alcohol banned He said the Taliban commander who led the hijacking apparently phoned supporters from surrounding villages to help move the tankers after they got stuck in the mud. ( What time? Since air strike was at 2:30AM, logic dictates all this happened after dark. Why send tankers out after dark unless General McChrystal was setting up a civilian massacre?

General Stanley McChrystal found, After a Nato airstrike killed as many as 125 people last week,

General McChrystal, head of International Forces in Afghanistan (Isaf),

German soldiers in northern Afghanistan have been criticised for calling in an American F15 Strike Eagle to drop two 500lb bombs on a pair of hijacked fuel tankers in Kunduz at about 2.30am on Friday.

Scores of local people who had gathered to siphon fuel from the lorries were killed in the explosions.

Rear-Admiral Gregory Smith, the top US spokesman in Afghanistan, accused German troops of waiting too long after the blasts to investigate the scene.

Germany insisted yesterday that the tankers posed an acute threat to their troops because they could have been used for suicide bomb missions.

The decision was based mainly on information from a single intelligence source, who claimed that everyone at the scene was part of the Taleban.

Heroine

General McChrystal covers up Pat Tillman shot in the back

War on drugs

bin Laden been dead

Rosh Hashanah sacrifices

“I Saw Americans Fighting”.

US troops are banned from drinking and British troops are allowed to drink only at official functions with special permission. Soldiers from the rest of the 42-nation alliance are governed by divergent national guidelines on alcohol consumption.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6825321.ece

From The Times September 8, 2009

Last orders for troops arriving for daily duty with hangovers
Soldiers at the Nato base in Afghanistan: General Stanley McChrystal found, to his fury, that many of his underlings were either drunk or hungover

Jerome Starkey in Kabul

After a Nato airstrike killed as many as 125 people last week, General Stanley McChrystal was keen to get the situation under control — fast.

When he tried to contact his underlings to find out what had happened, however, he found, to his fury, that many of them were either drunk or too hungover to respond.

Complaining in his daily Commander’s Update that too many people had been “partying it up”, General McChrystal, head of International Forces in Afghanistan (Isaf), banned alcohol at his headquarters yesterday, admonishing staff for not having “their heads in the right place” on Friday morning — a few hours after the deadly attack.

What was an oasis of coffee shops and bars where commanders could enjoy a beer or three will now be a dry area.

US troops accused of Afghan hospital raid

German soldiers in northern Afghanistan have been criticised for calling in an American F15 Strike Eagle to drop two 500lb bombs on a pair of hijacked fuel tankers in Kunduz at about 2.30am on Friday. Scores of local people who had gathered to siphon fuel from the lorries were killed in the explosions.

Nato began an investigation later that morning but military sources said that General McChrystal was furious because he “couldn’t get hold of the people he needed to get hold of and he blamed it on all-night partying”.

Rear-Admiral Gregory Smith, the top US spokesman in Afghanistan, accused German troops of waiting too long after the blasts to investigate the scene. When General McChrystal flew north, the local German commander, Colonel Georg Klein, told him that it was too dangerous to visit the blast site, four miles outside their camp, because they might get shot at.

President Karzai called the airstrikes unacceptable, and the fallout has heightened tensions inside Nato. Bernard Kouchner, the French Foreign Minister, described the bombing as a big mistake and the European Union foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, called it a “very sad event”.

Germany insisted yesterday that the tankers posed an acute threat to their troops because they could have been used for suicide bomb missions. Josef Jung, the Defence Minister, told parliament that there were no civilian casualties, and his deputy, Christian Schmidt, demanded that “foreign ministers from other countries should wait for the investigations”.

The German military is set to face tough questions, however, after a preliminary investigation found that the bombs were dropped in breach of Nato guidelines.

The decision was based mainly on information from a single intelligence source, who claimed that everyone at the scene was part of the Taleban.

Afghan human rights investigators said that as many as 70 civilians were among the dead and only a dozen insurgents were killed.

The row mirrors tensions inside the Nato-led international force over the two-tier nature of the coalition, where a handful of the member nations do the lion’s share of the fighting.

American soldiers, who have one of the strictest work ethics, joke that Isaf stands for “I Saw Americans Fighting”.

US troops are banned from drinking and British troops are allowed to drink only at official functions with special permission. Soldiers from the rest of the 42-nation alliance are governed by divergent national guidelines on alcohol consumption.

The Isaf headquarters is only half a mile square but it has at least seven bars that serve tax-free beer and wine — including a Tora Bora sports bar complete with flat-screen televisions and football memorabilia, the Gravel Pit, which has a snooker table, a German beer hall, the 37 Club and a Nordic Palace.

One insider said: “Thursday nights are the big party nights, because Friday’s a ‘low-ops’ day. They even open a bar in the garden at headquarters. There’s a ‘two can’ rule but people ignore it and hit it pretty hard.”

A group of Macedonian guards were sent home this year because they were discovered drunk on duty, while protecting the back gate.

The problem became so acute that military police started breathalysing drivers and pedestrians around the base.

“General McChrystal is extremely focused on the mission and he feels that the folk who are here at the headquarters level need to be at the top of their game in terms of supporting the folks out in the field,” an Isaf spokesman said. “The Kunduz incident provided an opportunity for him to articulate his concerns in this regard, but it was not the cause of the order nor is there any indication at this point that alcohol consumption was somehow a factor in the incident.”

He added that the decision was driven partly by respect for Muslim culture.

Civilian staff have been advised to make arrangements to stay off camp if they have more than two beers in an evening, but soldiers stationed elsewhere will still be free to drink.

The military airport KAIA was dubbed Kaia-napa, after the Cyprus resort, because there are so many bars; the main French garrison in Kabul has at least five bars with ales on tap. The Spanish and Italian troops stationed in the west are known within Nato for drinking wine at lunchtime.

At the main German base in Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan, there is a purpose-built nightclub known as the Beach Club Bar where hundreds of camp-bound troops party every Thursday. In a leaked report, German officers branded their troops there “useless cake-eaters,” before a parliamentary report revealed that 3,500 troops had consumed about 1.7 million pints of beer and 90,000 bottles of wine in a year.

In December their reputation suffered another blow when they were branded too fat to fight: a report claimed that 40 per cent of the troops aged 18-29 were overweight, compared with 35 per cent of the civilian population.

Talk of the new ban dominated conversations at Ciano’s pizzeria at the headquarters yesterday. The restaurant used to serve thousands of bottles of Peroni beer every month. The soldiers with calzones were resigned to sipping coffee instead.

Many of the civilian staff, who are free to leave the base, were not concerned. “It’s only on HQ that they’ve banned it. All the other bases that served it, still do,” one said.

McChrystal's Pat Tillman Connection By Dave Zirin

May 13, 2009

When NFL player-turned-Army Ranger Pat Tillman died at the hands of US troops in a case of "friendly fire," the spin machine at the Pentagon went into overdrive. Rumsfeld and company couldn't have their most high-profile soldier dying in such an inelegant fashion, especially with the release of those pesky photos from Abu Ghraib hitting the airwaves. So an obscene lie was told to Tillman's family, his friends and the American public. The chickenhawks in charge, whose only exposure to war was watching John Wayne movies, claimed that he died charging a hill and was cut down by the radical Islamic enemies of freedom. In the weeks preceding his death, Tillman was beginning to question what exactly he was fighting for, telling friends that he believed the war in Iraq was " [expletive] illegal." He may not have known what he was fighting for, but it's now clear what he died for: public relations. Today, after five years, six investigations and two Congressional hearings, questions still linger about how Tillman died and why it was covered up.

Now the man who greased the chain of command that orchestrated this great deception is prepared to assume total control of US operations in Afghanistan: Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It was McChrystal who approved Tillman's posthumous Silver Star, a medal given explicitly for combat, even though he later testified that he "suspected" friendly fire.

Yet despite this, both Democrats and Republicans are rushing to heap praise on McChrystal, including Sen. John McCain. It was McCain who rushed to speak at Tillman's funeral and then, when the cover-up became known, pledged to help the Tillman family expose the truth. McCain later turned his back on the Tillmans when they raised the volume and demanded answers. As Pat's mother, Mary Tillman, said last year, "He definitely eased out of the situation. He didn't blatantly say he wouldn't help us, it's just that it became clear that he kind of drifted away."

And now the Tillman family, amidst bipartisan praise for Obama's new general, must once again raise the inconvenient truth.

Pat's father, Pat Tillman Sr., told the Associated Press, "I do believe that guy participated in a falsified homicide investigation."

Mary Tillman, who excoriated McChrystal in her book, Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman, said, "It is imperative that Lt. Gen. McChrystal be scrutinized carefully during the Senate hearings."

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said in response:

We feel terrible for what the Tillman family went through, but this matter has been investigated thoroughly by the Pentagon, by the Congress, by outside experts, and all of them have come to the same conclusion: that there was no wrongdoing by Gen. McChrystal.

Morrell's statement has more spin than a washing machine powered by a V-8 engine. McChrystal has never explained why the early reports of Tillman's death were covered up, why his clothes and field journal were burned and destroyed on the scene or why Pat's brother Kevin, serving alongside him in the Rangers, was lied to on the spot. Even the cover-up was covered up. This should be a cause for dismissal--or indictment--not promotion.

What particularly rankles about Obama's choice of McChrystal, whose background is in the nefarious and shadowy world of "black ops," is that his actions in the Tillman cover-up feel emblematic instead of exceptional.

When an anonymous Army interrogator "at great personal risk" blew the whistle to Esquire in August 2006 on an extensive torture enterprise at Camp Nama, he described the then unknown McChrystal as being an overseer who knew the ugly truth. Torture at Camp Nama included using ice water to induce hypothermia. It was not a rogue operation unless we consider Generals like McChrystal "rogues." As Esquire reported:

Once, somebody brought it up with the colonel. "Will [the Red Cross] ever be allowed in here?" And he said absolutely not. He had this directly from General McChrystal and the Pentagon that there's no way that the Red Cross could get in--they won't have access and they never will. This facility was completely closed off to anybody investigating, even Army investigators.

Later in the piece, when asked where the colonel was getting his orders from the interrogator said, "I believe it was a two-star general. I believe his name was General McChrystal. I saw him there a couple of times."

Clearly President Obama is trying to "own" the war in Afghanistan: upping the troop levels, making it his "central front" in the battle against terrorism and now placing his own general in charge. But the president is also disappointing a generation of antiwar activists who voted for him expecting an end to imperial adventures and torture sanctioned by the executive branch. Now a man who should perhaps be on trial at the Hague is in charge of Afghanistan. Obama needs to know it's not just the Tillmans who are enraged by this terrible choice.

This article on Rosh Hashanah points out that a main component of Rosh Hashanah is and to remember the ram that was sacrificed in Isaac's place.

Does it follow that the thinking is, if Jewish people are not to have their sons sacrificed they must do as Isaac did, sacrifice a male lamb, which may translate into the manipulation of an economic meltdown sacrifice, 2008, or in 2001, 911, or the deliberate manipulation and blow up of two gasoline tankers in Afghanistan, 2009? This begs the question will there be other human sacrifices in 2009?

http://people.howstuffworks.com/rosh-hashanah.htm

How Rosh Hashanah Works
by Julia Layton

As the Day of Remembrance, Rosh Hashanah recalls the story of Isaac's near-sacrifice, which Jewish tradition states occurred on the first of Tishri. In this biblical account, God commanded Isaac's father, Abraham, to sacrifice his only son as an offering. Abraham accepts God's command, builds an altar, and prepares to sacrifice his son to prove his obedience and faith in God. At the very last minute, an angel conveying God's wishes stopped Abraham from killing Isaac, and pointed out a ram caught by its horns in a nearby bush. The angel told Abraham to sacrifice the ram in place of Isaac -- Abraham had passed God's test.

As a result, God blessed Abraham. This story is recalled on Rosh Hashanah to remind Jews that submission before God is the way to attain God's mercy, and the truly righteous do not question God's will. They do as God commands and are rewarded for their faith.

The last of Rosh Hashanah's main symbols is the shofar, which is a hollowed out ram's horn. The Day of Shofar Blowing has several implications, but there are at least three widely recognized meanings. One is to recall the story of Isaac -- of God sparing his life as a reward for Abraham's faith -- and to remember the ram that was sacrificed in Isaac's place.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/07/2008724234833723652.html

Friday, July 25, 2008
18:34 Mecca time, 15:34 GMT

Karzai 'protecting drug lords'


Afghanistan produced 93 per cent of the world's opium last year [AFP]

A former senior US anti-drug official has accused Afghanistan's president of playing the US "like a fiddle" and protecting drug lords in his country for political reasons.

Thomas Schweich, who until June served as US state department co-ordinator for counter-narcotics and justice reform for Afghanistan, said Hamid Karzai was impeding the so-called war on drugs.

But the US government underscored its continued support for Karzai on Thursday despite the allegations.

Schweich wrote in an article on the New York Times website on Wednesday that "narco-corruption went to the top of the Afghan government".

He said the Taliban fighting Karzai's government profited from drugs, but Karzai was reluctant to move against big drug lords in his political power base in the south, where most of the country's opium and heroin is produced.

"Karzai was playing us like a fiddle," Schweich wrote.

"The US would spend billions of dollars on infrastructure development; the US and its allies would fight the Taliban; Karzai's friends could get richer off the drug trade," he wrote.

"Karzai had Taliban enemies who profited from drugs but he had even more supporters who did."

Schweich also accused the Pentagon and some US generals of obstructing attempts to get military forces to assist and protect opium crop eradication drives.

'Warlord government'

Nato and US military commanders have been reluctant to get involved in the drug fight, arguing that destroying farmers' crops would alienate tribesmen and increase support for the Taliban.

Hillary Mann Leverett, a former US National Security Council official for Afghanistan, told Al Jazeera that the US knew that government ministers in Afghanistan, including the minister of defence in 2002, were involved in drug trafficking.

"Karzai was playing us like a fiddle. The US would spend billions of dollars on infrastructure development; the US and its allies would fight the Taliban; Karzai's friends could get richer off the drug trade"

Thomas Schweich,
ex-US state department co-ordinator for counter-narcotics and justice reform for Afghanistan

Afghan ministers at that time had little expertise but were appointed because "they were warlords, they were thugs, they represented various ethnic and sectarian constituencies", Mann Leverett said.

She added that the US government chose to work with them in an attempt to stop Afghanistan becoming a haven for al-Qaeda.

"Instead of funding the warlords we could have funded the UN to have a security peacekeeping force throughout the country.

"Instead we left Karzai without any troops, without any weapons, without any money, without any backing, to the warlords.

Gonzalo Gallegos, a state department spokesman, did not directly address Schweich's allegations but defended US policy and backing for Karzai.

"We know and understand that there is a corruption issue in Afghanistan but we're working with the sovereign government," Gallegos said on Thursday.

"President Karzai has shown us through word and deed that he is working with us to help improve the plight of that country."

Gallegos added that corruption was a deeply rooted problem and solving it would take time.

Production soaring

Drug production has skyrocketed since the US-led invasion that ousted the Taliban.

In 2007, nearly 200,000 hectares of land in Afghanistan was used to cultivate poppy - more than double the area in 2003 – and the country produced 93 per cent of the world's supply of opium, the raw material of heroin.

Karzai says his government is succeeding in the war on drugs and has repeatedly promised his US backers that he is committed to rooting out endemic corruption and fighting the drug trade.

His counter-narcotics ministry says 20 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces will be poppy-free this year, compared to 13 provinces in 2007.

But in the south, cultivation remains rampant.

http://news.antiwar.com/2009/09/08/german-chancellor-condemns-critics-of-afghan-air-strike/

German Chancellor Condemns Critics of Afghan Air Strike
Kunduz Killings Fuel Rising Antiwar Sentiment Ahead of Election
by Jason Ditz, September 08, 2009

Faced with rising criticism both internationally and from several high profile members of her own nation’s parliament, German Chancellor Angela Merkel lashed out over the issue of Friday’s deadly air strike in Afghanistan’s Kunduz Province, insisting that she “will not tolerate that from whoever it may be, at home as well as abroad.”

The Kunduz strike, which killed at least 70 civilians, has drawn considerable attention in Germany, as preliminary NATO findings suggest the German commander who ordered the strike violated rules designed to prevent civilian deaths and used a single informant as his source for the claim that no civilians were present at the time of the strike.

German officials have defended the commander, claiming they had information that the militants planned to use the hijacked trucks to attack a German base. This claim appeared to be refuted by President Karzai however, who reported the trucks were stuck in the riverbed at the time of the attack.

And with less than three weeks left to go before their national elections, the news that a German commander was directly involved in such a large number of civilian deaths has fueled antiwar sentiment in the nation, which has largely shunned military involvement internationally since World War 2.

For Chancellor Merkel’s Christian Democrats, the claims that involvement in the Afghan War is justified and indeed, that it isn’t really a war at all are facing renewed scrutiny. Merkel’s ability to sell a war-weary nation on their continued involvement is going to be key to the election’s results, and that gives her just a few short weeks to make a case.

http://news.antiwar.com/2009/09/08/was-2007-blackwater-massacre-revenge-for-911/

Everyone on this planet knows Arabs are not responsible for 911, the bad guys, Rothschilds and Rockefellers are. Revenge against Arabs is not an excuse to kill Arabs because they had nothing to do with it, except to take the bait and the fall.

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Was 2007 Blackwater Massacre Revenge for 9/11?
Court Documents Assert One Guard Routinely Bragged About Disregard for Iraqi Civilians
by Jason Ditz, September 08, 2009
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According to court documents from a trial related to the 2007 Baghdad massacre, in which Blackwater contractors killed 17 Iraqi civilians, at least one of the contractors involved had bragged about his disregard for Iraqi civilian life and said he wanted revenge for September 11.

The contractors’ defense was that they decided that a slow moving Kia sedan was probably a car bomb, and opened fire on a crowd of civilians in a “pure and simple case of self-defense.” The documents were part of prosectors’ efforts to prove that the contractors had motives for the attack.

The attack was a key part of Iraq’s decision to revoke the license of Blackwater to operate as contractors in the nation, and the company later renamed itself “Xe” in hopes of escaping the infamy it had gained over its Iraq escapades.

Despite the ban, Blackwater has continued to operate in Iraq as contractors for the State Department, much to the chagrin of Iraqi officials. The State Department insists Blackwater’s planned replacement simply isn’t ready to take over for them.